How to turn a 'string list' into a real list?

Question

I am opening a .txt file and have to use a list inside of it for a function I am writing. This is one of the lists given in the text file:

\'[24, 72         


        

Answer 1

An answer has already been accepted, but I just wanted to add this for the record. The json module is really good for this kind of thing:

import json
s = '[24, 72, 95, 100, 59, 80, 87]\n'
lst = json.loads(s)